1960

Linda Reed, who during the 1960’s was raising three kids and
working in a factory outside of Gratz, Pennsylvania, never noticed a change in
anyone who returned from Vietnam. She knew many people who served in Vietnam,
but resuming civilian life, none of those she knew exhibited outward effects of
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She was happy that those who had left
had arrived home safe....

In the early 1920’s feminism made a huge leap forward causing women to be viewed as people rather than property, but in the early 1960’s many women still felt more needed to be done. Before 1960, equality was just a thought being pondered by every woman in America, but now women felt they had to fight for equal rights. One of these woman was author Betty Friedan who through her writings changed...

The people's opinion at the International Convention of Comic Art in 1968

In the cover of thousands of comic books, Batman, Superman, and Capitan Marvel, are displayed in courageous brilliance. These comis books were once so cheap that you could pay 10 cents for each, but in 1968 they were selling for approximately 150 dollars each during the International Convention of Comic Art....

“The new presidents wife has a look that’s all her own, yet it’s the look that’s already being copied rapidly by American women,” the Los Angeles Times noted when First Lady Jackie Kennedy blew up the fashion world during her husband's presidency. In the early 1960s, throughout towns and cities in America, Jackie created a frenzy in the media with her impeccable style. Newspapers...

On February 14, 1962, Jackie Kennedy gave her famous White House Tour on for CBS Television. Charles Collingwood of CBS guided the hour-long tour. Jackie represented a new, relaxed style of modernity and femininity. She demonstrated impressive knowledge of history by speaking about what events past presidents held in each room. In the Green Room Jackie noted, “this used to be the dining room,...

Most people only think of classes being extended to students who have some form of disability. In 1960, however, when these special education classes were just starting out, they served more purposes then simply serving the disabled. In 1960, schools in Fairmont, North Carolina started to provide classes for children with special educational needs, said The Robesonian. The curriculum in...

On March 16, 1960, the newspaper The Nashville Tennessean reveals the story of a civil rights protest gone awry. Approximately 120 African Americans entered nine separate white-only restaurants in a show of protest. The group of protesters demanded the desegregation of eating facilities. The public demonstration was sparked by students angered with the Mayor of Nashville’s biracial committee,...

The article "U.S. Court Orders New Orleans To Start Pupil Integration in Fall: Outlines Grade-a-Year Plan After Board's Refusal to Present Own Proposal INTEGRATION SET IN NEW ORLEANS was written by Claude Sittons and published on the New York Times on May 17, 1960. The article states thaton May 16, 1960 Federal District Judge J. Skelly Wright set September as the deadline for New Orleans...

During his run for the presidency, Senator John F. Kennedy successfully hid his troubling medical history from the public. JFK suffered from Addison’s disease, which is a disease where the adrenal glands do not produce enough hormones. Kennedy’s longtime doctors, Janet Travell and Eugene J. Cohen kept the secret of Kennedy’s severe health problem, which required regular doses of cortisone...

On July 15, 1960, a crowd of over 80,000 people congregated at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in California, all of them had one thing in common, to hear the words of the newly selected Democratic Presidential Nominee, John F. Kennedy. Before the Kennedy campaign, the United States had entered the early stages of the Cold War, Fidel Castro installed a communist regime ninety miles off the coast...